JOHN YOUNG (b. 1956)

1956 Born in Hong Kong 1967 Moved to Sydney, Australia due to the conditions surrounding the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in China 1974–77 Read philosophy of science and aesthetics in the Department of General Philosophy, University of Sydney, Australia 1978–80 Studied painting and sculpture at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, Australia 1983–94 Lecturer in Painting, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, Australia 1997 Founding President of the Asian Australian Artists’ Association, Gallery 4A, Sydney, Australia 2012 Australia Council Fellowship Present Lives and works in Melbourne, Australia

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2019 The Lives of Celestials: John Young Zerunge, Town Hall Gallery, Hawthorn Arts Centre, Boroondara, Australia Silent Transformations, ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 2018 Vita Contemplativa, Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane, Australia The Burrangong Affray, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney (with Jason Phu), co-curated by Mikala Tai & Micheal Do This Is Shelter, Olsen Gallery, Sydney, Australia 2017 Macau Days, Migration Museum, Adelaide, Australia None Living Knows, ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 2016 The repetition of the good. The repetition of the bad, Alexander Ochs Gallery, New Synagogue Berlin – Centrum Judaicum, Germany Storm Resurrection, Pearl Lam Galleries, Shanghai, China Modernity’s End: Half the Sky, Incinerator Art Space, Sydney, Australia 2015 Eternal Transformation, Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane, Australia 1866: The Worlds of Lowe Kong Meng and Jong Ah Siug, Arc One Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Open Monument, permanent public installation, Ballarat, Australia 2014 Safety Zone, Museum of Australian Democracy at Eureka, Ballarat, Australia 2013 The Bridge and the Fruit Tree: John Young—A Survey, Australian National University Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra, Australia Bonhoeffer in Harlem, Erlöserkirche, Bamberg, Germany 2012 The Macau Days, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong, China The New Wolf of Rome, Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane, Australia 2011 The Bonhöffer Concept, Alexander Ochs Galleries, Berlin, Germany Safety Zone, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, Australia 2010 Apparition, The Helper, Michael Reid at Elizabeth Bay, Sydney, Australia Safety Zone, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 2009 Strachan’s Room, Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane, Australia Bonhöffer in Harlem, Installation at St. Matthäus Church, Kulturforum, Berlin (in conjunction with Alexander Ochs Galleries, Berlin, Germany/Beijing, China) 2008 1967Dispersion, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong, China The Day After Tomorrow, Michael Reid at Elizabeth Bay, Sydney, Australia John Young, Gallery, Perth, Australia (in conjunction with Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia) 2007 Walden in China, Nanjing Library Gallery, Nanjing, China Return, via new paths, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong, China Naïve and Sentimental Paintings, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

2006 Detours and Variations, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, Australia Open World, Cowen Gallery, State Library of Victoria, Victoria, Australia; Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, New South Wales, Australia; Queensland Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia 2005 Orient/Occident: John Young—A Survey of Works, 1978–2005, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria, Australia The Fundamental Paintings, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia French Wallpaper and Numeral Paintings, Bellas Milani Gallery, Brisbane, Australia Near Sanctuary, Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel 2004 The Persian Paintings, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, Australia 2003 Reversals, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Three Propositions, Prüss & Ochs Gallery, Berlin, Germany The Void Path, John Batten Gallery, Hong Kong, China 2002 Unstable Cultures, Sherman Galleries Good Hope, Sydney, Australia 2001 Pine’s Edge, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 2000 John Young—Works for a Considered Tourist, John Batten Gallery, Hong Kong, China Awful Backlash, Sherman Galleries Good Hope, Sydney, Australia Scholar Rocks, Nymphs and Paint Blotches, Sherman Galleries Hargrave, Sydney, Australia 1999 The Hermit Paintings, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 1998 Sequences from Heaven, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Matteo Ricci in Goa, Sherman Galleries Good Hope, Sydney, Australia 1997 Works on Paper, Za Moca Foundation, Tokyo, Japan 1996 Paradigm Fountain, Sherman Galleries Good Hope, Sydney, Australia Welcome to the Villa, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane, Australia 1995 The Bridge, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 1994 Diaspora Asia, Sherman Galleries Good Hope, Sydney, Australia 1993 John Young, Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane, Australia 1992 Pony My Neighbour, City Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Models and Animals in Camera, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane, Australia 1991 Bad Faith Realism, Yuill/Crowley, Sydney, Australia 1990 Polychrome Paintings, City Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 1989 Ordinary Photography, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia A Sudden Rush of Devotion, Yuill/Crowley, Sydney, Australia Chameleon Contemporary Artspace, Hobart, Australia 1988 Light of Day, Yuill/Crowley, Sydney, Australia 3 States, Yuill/Crowley Gallery, Sydney; City Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 1987 After Virtue, United Artists Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Yuill/Crowley, Sydney, Australia Bellas Gallery, Brisbane, Australia 1986 Winter Palace, Yuill/Crowley, Sydney, Australia 1985 The Grey Light, Yuill/Crowley, Sydney, Australia 1984 John Young, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia 1983 Yuill/Crowley, Sydney, Australia 1982 The Second Mirage, Rosroe, Connemara, Ireland

Selected Group Exhibitions

2018 Dystopian Forms, Pearl Lam Galleries H Queen’s, Hong Kong Lingering Manifestations, Pearl Lam Galleries, Singapore Infinite Conversations: Asian-Australian Artistic Exchange, National Gallery of Australia, Australia 2 x 2, Olsen Gallery, Sydney, Australia 2017 Sites of Imagination, Arc One Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Acts of Transgression, Pearl Lam Galleries, Hong Kong, China Art by Subjects, BRIGHTSPACE, Melbourne, Australia The Script Road, The Macau Literary Festival, Macau Glorious Earthly Pleasures and Heavenly Realms, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 2016 Moving Tongues, City Library, Melbourne, Australia 2015 Mind Shadows, Arc One Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Conflict: Contemporary responses to war, University of Queensland Art Museum, Australia

2013 ORIENTing: With or Without You, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia Circles (recreation of Bonhöffer in Harlem), Bamberg, Germany U.F.O…., Fang Li Jun Art Space, Hong Kong, China 2012 Passages: Brian Castro, Khai Liew, John Young, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria, Australia Made in China, Australia, Long Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, Australia Chinese Australia, Australia China Art Foundation, Melbourne, Australia 2011 Empathy: Khai Liew and John Young, Michael Reid at Elizabeth Bay, Sydney, Australia Forever Young: 30 Years of the Heide Collection, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia New Psychedelia, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, Australia Mid-Autumn Moon, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong, China Red, China and Artistic Freedom, 17 Perspectives, 1979–2011, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery Art Projects, Hong Kong, China Sound + Vision (with Robert Jacks, David Band, and Jeremy Kibel), Hill Smith Gallery, Adelaide, Australia 2009 Ein Bild ist Ein Bild / The Wunderkammer (higgledy piggledy) (An Image Is a Picture), Alexander Ochs Gallery, Berlin, Germany Langue Froid—Cold Language/Tongue, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney, Australia 2008 Die Wahren Orte, Alexander Ochs Gallery, Berlin, Germany; Beijing, China 2007 Gallery Artists Group Show 8, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong, China 2006 Still Life and Interior, Savill Galleries, Melbourne, Australia Year in Art, National Trust, S.H Ervin Gallery, Sydney, Australia Decade: Acquisitions 1996–2006, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia 2004 Festivus—One Of, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, Australia A Real China Club Night, Alexander Ochs Galleries, Berlin, Australia Bridges: Contemporary Art from China, Siemens Forum Bayern, Munich, Germany Chinese: Artists Between Tradition and Present, Pinacoteca Provinciale di Potenza, Potenza, Italy 2003 New Beaut Country: Selected Works from the TarraWarra Museum of Art Collection, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia Die Neue Kunsthalle II / Die Wirklichkeit des Individuums (The New Art Gallery II / The Reality of the Individual), Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany See, Here, Now—Vizard Foundation Art Collection of the 1990’s, Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia MCA Unpacked II, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia Austral-Asia Zero Three (with Xu Bing, Cai Guo Qiang, Gu Wenda et al.), Sherman Galleries, Sydney, Australia Collaged World, McClelland Gallery + Sculpture Park, Melbourne, Australia 2002 Site + Sight: Translating Cultures, Asian Civilisations Museum, Earl Lu Galleries, Singapore We Are Australian, Immigration Museum, Melbourne, Australia Dress & Dreaming, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, Australia No Muttering, QCA Gallery, Brisbane, Australia; Gosford Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales, Australia 2001 MCA Unpacked, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia 2000 A Studio in Paris: Australian Artists at the Cité, National Trust S H Ervin Gallery, Sydney, Australia No Muttering, Ivan Doherty Gallery, Sydney, Australia The Rose Crossing, Singapore; Holmes à Court Gallery, Perth, Australia; Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia; Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong, China Restricting the Palette: Colour and Land, Canberra School of Art Gallery, Canberra, Australia 1999 The Rose Crossing, Brisbane City Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia Mike Parr, Bernard Sachs, Imants Tillers, John Young, Orange Regional Gallery, Orange, Australia 1996 Spirit and Place: A Century of Art in Australia, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia Systems End, Oxy Gallery, Osaka, Japan; Hakone Open Air Museum, Hakone, Japan; Dong An Gallery, Seoul, South Korea; Kaohsiung Museum of Art, Kaohsiung, Taiwan 1995 Antipodean Currents, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA Hong Kong–Sydney, Fringe Gallery, Hong Kong Transcultural Painting, Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia 1994 Antipodean Currents, The Kennedy Centre, Washington, D.C., USA 1993 Confess and Conceal, 11 insights from contemporary Australia and South East Asia, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia; National Museum of Singapore, Singapore; National Gallery of Thailand, Bangkok, Thailand John Young, Dale Frank and Imants Tillers, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney, Australia

Colour, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 1992 Works from the Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia The Nude 1992, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia 1991 Art from Australia: Eight Contemporary Views, Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Manila, the Philippines; Australian High Commission, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; National Gallery of Singapore, Singapore The Hypothesis of Imitation, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane, Australia Contemporary Art Archive, opening exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia Transformations, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia 1990 Abstraction, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 1989 Surface Paradise, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Cosmos, City Gallery, Melbourne, Australia The New Naturalism, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia 1988 Australian Art Post 1960, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, Australia 1987 The Shadow of Reason, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia Selected Contemporary Drawings, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia 1986 Pharmakon, Yuill/Crowley, Sydney, Australia The Hand and the Photograph, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia 1985 Making Appearances, Charlottenburg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong Australian Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 1984 Show No Cowardness, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia Drawing Sex, Yuill/Crowley, Sydney, Australia Off Colour, Yuill/Crowley, Sydney, Australia 1983 The Life of Energies, Artspace, Sydney, Australia 1982 Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne, Australia A Local Mirage (2), Art/Concept/Research, Cité Internationale des Arts, Salon, Paris, France A Local Mirage (3), Zona Gallery, Florence, Italy A Local Mirage, n-space, Melbourne, Australia 1979 Institute of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia

Selected Collections

Allen, Allen & Hemsley Collection of Art, Sydney, Australia ANZ Building Collection, Sydney, Australia Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia Artbank, Australia AXA Collection, Melbourne, Australia Baillieu Myer Collection of Australian Art of the 80s, Melbourne, Australia Bank of Chicago, Illinois, USA Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia Besen Collection, Melbourne, Australia BHP Billiton Collection, Sydney, Australia Coopers and Lybrand Collection, Melbourne, Australia Credit Suisse First Boston Collection, Hong Kong, China Cypress Lakes Resort, Hunter Valley, Australia Deutsche Bank Collection, Hong Kong, China Gandel Collection, Melbourne, Australia Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia Goldman Sachs Collection, Melbourne, Australia Griffith University Art Collection, Brisbane, Australia Hamilton Regional Gallery, Victoria, Australia Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia Hewlett Packard Corporation Collection, Melbourne, Australia Hong Kong Grand Hyatt, Hong Kong, China ICI Collection, Sydney, Australia M+ Museum, Hong Kong, China Macquarie Bank Collection, Sydney, Australia Monash University Museum of Art Collection, Melbourne, Australia

MTR Corporation, Hong Kong, China Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia Myer Collection, Melbourne, Australia Nanjing Library, Nanjing, China National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia National Library of Australia, Canberra, Australia National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea Queensland National Gallery, Brisbane, Australia Shell Collection, Sydney, Australia State Bank Collection, Sydney, Australia TarraWarra Museum of Art Collection, Victoria, Australia United Nations Collection, New York City, USA University of Queensland Art Collection, Brisbane, Australia Valentine Sands Collection, Melbourne, Australia Victor and Loti Smorgan Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia The Vizard Foundation, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia Wakayama Hotel Collection, Wakayama, Japan Wesfarmers Collection, Perth, Australia Westin Hotel Collection, Melbourne, Australia